About IX Chopin Competition Edition
Winners
1st Prize
Krystian ZimermanPoland
2nd Prize
Dina YoffeLatvia
3rd Prize
Tatiana FedkinaRussian Federation
4th Prize
Pavel GililovUkraine
5th Prize
Dean KramerPoland
6th Prize
Diana KacsoBrazil
Krystian ZimermanPoland
Krystian ZimermanPoland
Jury
Eugene ListStany Zjednoczone
František RauchCzechy
Olga Iliwicka-DąbrowskaPolska
Kazimierz SikorskiPolska
Akiko IguchiJaponia
Anton DikovNo data from API
Ludwig HoffmannNiemcy
Alexander JennerAustria
André-François Marescotti Szwajcaria
Bernard RingeissenFrancja
István AntalWęgry
Witold MałcużyńskiPolska
Yevgeny MalininRosja
Zbigniew ŚliwińskiPolska
Andrzej JasińskiPolska
Amadeus WebersinkeNiemcy
Orazio FrugoniWłochy
Federico MompouHiszpania
Gheorghe HalmosRumunia
Tadeusz ŻmudzińskiPolska
Louis KentnerWęgry
Zbigniew SzymonowiczPolska
Information
The hosts of the Chopin Competition had to wait twenty years for another home-bred winner. Fortune smiled on the Poles in the 9th edition, held in 1975. Krystian Zimerman, a pupil of Andrzej Jasiński, went down in the history of the Competition as the youngest winner of the first prize and of the special prizes for the best performances of mazurkas and of a polonaise. He was also the undisputed idol of the public. Soviet pianists also enjoyed an upturn in fortunes, occupying the next three places (Dina Yoffe, Tatiana Fedkina and Pavel Gililov in second, third and fourth place respectively).
During the seventies, it became a tradition to perform Mozart’s Requiem on the anniversary of Fryderyk Chopin’s death: 17 October. That work was heard during the composer’s solemn funeral at St Mary Magdalene’s in Paris in 1849; in Warsaw, the annual concert is held at the Church of the Holy Cross, where Chopin’s heart is enshrined.
Another innovation was to present the winners of the first three places with medals: gold, silver and bronze. The medals, designed by Józef Markiewicz, were produced by the State Mint.
Plakat
In the mid-1970s, the 9th edition of the Chopin Competition was promoted by a poster selected through a competition, designed by Teomil Kemilew (1936–2008). Teomil Kemilew (also known as Theo Kemilew) was a Bulgarian photographer and designer who had lived in Warsaw since 1963. His Chopin poster does not exhibit an experimental spirit or a striking poetic quality. Instead, it is a simple design that effectively conveys everything the viewer needs to know at a glance.
